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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has observed that the Directorate of Education (DoE) does not possess “unbridled” authority to regulate the fees charged by unaided schools but can only intervene to prevent profiteering, commercialisation of education, and the charging of capitation fees.

A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela upheld a single-judge Bench’s decision quashing a DoE direction prohibiting fee hikes by Bluebells School International and Lilawati Vidya Mandir for the academic session 2017–18.

The single-judge Bench, in an order passed in February last year, allowed the writ petitions filed by the schools and quashed the DoE order to the extent it prescribed fee increase

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